Exam 1: Introducing Biological Psychology

As part of your senior thesis,you want to study the effects of advertising on young children during Saturday morning cartoons.Which of the following is the first step you will need to take?

A group of scientists at your university wants to investigate rates of abuse of prescription drugs,like Oxycontin,among students living in dorms by using an online questionnaire.This research proposal is likely to raise ethical concerns about

The use of embryonic stem cells for research

A researcher has found differences between homosexual and heterosexual men in a specific area of the brain.One reason to be cautious in interpreting this finding as proof that this area causes homosexual behavior is that

If you want to locate a pathway's point of origin,it would be best to use the

The pathways of the brain can be studied using either myelin stains or horseradish peroxidase.

A researcher wants to study fetal alcohol syndrome,a set of deficits in the offspring caused by maternal drinking during pregnancy,by randomly assigning pregnant mice to alcohol and no alcohol groups.Which of the following is the best reason for using mice instead of people for this study?

Hughlings Jackson is best known for

Using electrical brain stimulation,researchers have located areas of the brain that appear to be involved with

Compared with non-twin siblings,twins

Dr.Wilson is interested in the functions of a nucleus found in the hypothalamus of rats.Which of the following technologies would you recommend to Dr.Wilson for answering this question?

In the procedure illustrated here,stain is first injected into the ___________________________________,and then it travels to cell bodies located in the ____________________.

Identify two of the ethical concerns raised by the case of Jesse Gelsinger,the teen volunteer who died in a gene therapy trial.

Functional magnetic resonance imaging takes advantage of the fact that compared with less active neurons,more active neurons require greater amounts of

Both lesions and electrical brain stimulation allow scientists to

The technology illustrated in this figure allows researchers to

A disadvantage of embryonic stem cells is that they

Particular proteins in cells can be identified using

Why did it take so long for neuroscientists to accept the Neuron Doctrine?

Jeremy's physician suspects that he might have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.Which of the following technologies is the physician likely to use to determine a diagnosis?